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weekend

[week-end, -end] / ˈwikˌɛnd, -ˈɛnd /










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As of Friday evening, it wasn’t clear how much of the snowballing flight delays would continue into the weekend.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026

The fallout from the resignation of Nvidia chief Jensen Huang continues to lead the Financial Times this weekend.

From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026

Back in New York, Tiara Johnson had been heading to Orlando for a weekend concert, and any hope that she would make it was growing dim.

From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2026

Enjoy the weekend, and see you back here on Monday!

From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2026

I get going, nailing the pieces Owen cut for me over the weekend, and then see from my downloaded plans that I need a level.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz

He attributed the lackluster performance to the Georgia incident and its related ride closures, as well as bad weather on crucial weekends.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026

The Training Season singer is top of Friday's bill for both weekends in April, with psych-rock band Tame Impala headlining the Saturday shows and US singer SZA closing out both Sundays.

From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026

On weekends, teachers deploy squads of children armed with clipboards of questions: Where are you from?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

They most recently beat Fiji and Argentina and now face Australia, Japan, New Zealand and a Nations Championship play-off on successive weekends through November.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

It’s the first watercolor that I’ve ever attempted, that I’ve spent the last few weekends working on, before and after my shifts at the marina.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

There he weekended last week, driving up from Philadelphia through Valley Forge Park.

From Time Magazine Archive

The good weather gives us more time to write, because we aren’t raking leaves, shoveling snow, having drinks with our editors, or weekending in the Hamptons.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2022

He is said to have been building a retirement compound in Santiago de Cuba, the island’s second city, while weekending in the mountains where he helped changed the course of history.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 15, 2021

Long a destination for weekending Brits in search of cheap booze, Calais had by now become something of a ghost town, evacuated of the usual tourists, who were fearful of the encampment on its doorstep.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 21, 2017

And the weekending shopkeepers and miners from La Wallonie, the French-speaking eastern half of the country, headed to Blankenberge.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2016

If I were weekending at Bodfish's, I should have arrived there just half an hour ago.

From A Wodehouse Miscellany Articles & Stories by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse


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